# Federal Register #WHD-2025-0002

Department of Labor withdraws proposed rule on Title 29 CFR interpretive guidance

**Buyer:** Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division
**Posted:** October 07, 2026
**Identifier:** WHD-2025-0002

The Department of Labor is ending a Wage and Hour Division rulemaking about interpretive guidance in Title 29 CFR.
- Government agency: U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Wage and Hour Division (WHD).
- The agency is withdrawing a proposed rule that would have removed certain interpretive guidance and policy statements from Title 29, Chapter V, Subchapter B, and treated them as subregulatory guidance.
- Affected CFR parts: 775, 776, 779, 782, 783, 784, 789, 793, and 794.
- The proposal is no longer under consideration; this notice does not request products or services.
- No OEMs, vendors, quantities, or part numbers are identified.

### Description

The Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, is withdrawing its proposed rule published July 2, 2025. The proposal would have removed from Title 29, Chapter V, Subchapter B of the Code of Federal Regulations parts that were not issued or amended through notice-and-comment rulemaking, and repurposed them as subregulatory guidance. The Department is discontinuing the rulemaking and removing the proposal from further consideration. The withdrawal was effective October 6, 2026.

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